Brooder.



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BROODER.

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UNITED STATES PATENT enrich.

GEORGE WASHINGTON MEAOHER AND STANLEY L. MONTGOMERY, OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

BROODER.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented May 21 1907.

Application filed October 29,1906. Serial No. 341,153.

I the opening 4. This door 8 is curved to conform to the curvature of the side wall 3, and its ends slide in guides 9, as shown in Fig. 4. At the center of the top of the door 8 is formed a finger piece 10, b 7 means of which State of California, have invented certain i may be r adily r i ed and IOWeIGd. Also new and useful Improvements in Brooders closing or covering the opening 4 is a curtain and We do declare the following to be a full, I 11 of felt or other fabric. This curtain de- To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that we, GEORGE IVAsHINo- TON MEAGHER and STANLEY L. MONTGOMERY, citizens of the United States, residing at Los Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles and clear, and exact description of the invention, pends from the inner face of the wall 3, to such as will enable others skilled in the art to Which t i e ure t a Point just above the which it appertains to make and use the same. t p Of th pening 4, i s Seen in Fig. 3.

This invention relates to improvements in T 16 fr 000I1iCal top 2 Of he brooder brooders, and it consists in th nov l c body has formed in its front a vertically-exstruction, combination and arrangement f tending opening 12, across which is stretched parts hereinafter described and claimed. Woven wire fabric or the like 13. This open- The object of the invention is to impr v ing 12 is provided for ventilation purposes and simplify the construction and operation n i i adap d be 0108661 b T & g of devices of this character and thereby rendoor 14. This door is in the form of a plate der the same more durable and eflicient, and having its edges slidably engaged with guides less expensive. 15 arranged upon the outside of the cover 2 The above and other objects which will adjacent to the opening 12. A finger piece appear as the nature of the invention is betor knob 16 is provided at the upper end of the ter understood, are accomplished by the top or slide 13, so that it may be readily opconstruction illustrated in the accompanying erated. In the cover 2 is also formed a horidrawings, in which zontally-extending. opening 17 of sufficient Figure 1 is a front elevation of the imsize to permit a persons hand to be inserted proved brooder; Fig. 2 is a top plan view of for the purpose of cleaning the interior of the the same Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional view brooder or removing the chicks therefrom. taken on the plane indicated by the line 33 This opening 17 is closed by a sliding door 18 in Fig. 1, and Fig. 4 is a horizontal sectional which is in the form of a plate curved to conview through the body of the brooder, showform to the outer surface of the top 2 upon ing a modified form of heater arranged which it slides, its upper and lower edges entherein. I gaging guides 19 provided upon said top, as

Referring to the drawings by numeral, 1 clearly shown in the drawings. This door or denotes the body of the improved brooder. slide 18 is also provided with a finger piece or This body is preferably constructed of sheet knob 20, by means of which it may be readily metal and is of cylindrical form, having opened or closed. fixedly secured upon its open upper end a Provided upon the bottom 5 of the brooder top 2, preferably of frusto conical form. body 1 is a concentric wall. 21, which is Formed in the front of the vertical side wall adapted to support a heater 22 and against 3 of the body 1 is an opening 4, through which the chicks may huddle. As shown in which the chicks pass in entering and leaving Figs. 1 and 3 of the drawings, the heater 22 the brooder. This opening 4, which excomprises a hollow body of double frustotends circumferentially a suitable distance, conical form, the lower end 23'of which is is arranged slightly above the bottom 5 of adapted to fit into the circular wall 21. the body 1, and leading up to it is an inclined i pening into the body 22 is an inlet pipe 24 plate 6, up and down which the chicks walk which extends through an opening in the side in entering and leaving the brooder. This wall 3 of the body 1. A discharge pipe 25 plate 6 is of greater width at its outer and projects from the top of the body 22 and out lower end than at its upper and inner end, through the center of the top 2, as seen in and its sides are bent upwardly at right Fig. 3. A lamp is here shown atA to pass angles to provide flanges 7. Mounted to its heat and products of combustion through slide vertically upon the outer face of the the pipe 24, the body 22 and the discharge body 3 is a door 8 which is adapted to close pipe 25.

If desired, a heater 26 of the form shown in Fig. 4 may be substituted for the one just described. This heater, instead of having a body of the form shown in Fig. 3, may have one consisting of a hollow ring 27, into one side of which the inlet pipe 24 opens. The discharge pipe 25 of this form of heater projects from its annular body at a point diametrically opposite the inlet pipe 24 and is curved upwardly to project through the top 2, as will be readily understood.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, the construction, operation and advantages of the invention will be readily under stood without requiring a more extended explanation.

Various changes in the form, proportion and the minor details of construction may be resorted to without departing from the principle or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention, as defined by the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention, What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters-Patent is 1. A brooder comprising a body having an entrance opening for the chicks and a ventilation opening, closures for said openings, a vertical wall upon the bottom of said body, a heater supported upon said vertical Wall, an inlet pipe for the heater projecting through the side wall of the brooder body, and a discharge pipe for the heater projecting through the top of the brooder body.

2. A brooder comprising having a frusto-conical top,

a circular body the side wall of the body having an entrance opening for the chicks, and the inclined portion of said top having a verticallyextending ventilation opening and a horizontally-extending cleanout opening, closures for the said openings in the side and top of the body, an upright wall upon the bottom of said body, and a heater supported upon said wall.

3. A brooder comprising a circular body having a r'rusto-conical top, the side wall of the body having an entrance opening for the chicks, and the inclined portion'of said top having a vertically extending ventilation opening and a horizontally-extending cleanout opening, a vertical sliding door for said entrance opening, a curtain for said entrance opening, an inclined plate leading up to said entrance opening, a reticulate material covering said ventilation opening, a sliding door for closing said ventilation opening, a sliding door for closing said clean-out opening, an upright wall arranged centrally upon the bottom of said body, a heater supported upon said upright wall, an inlet pipe for said heater extending through the side Wall of the body, and a discharge pipe for said heater extending through the top of said body, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GEORGE WASHINGTON MEACHER. STANLEY L. MONTGOMERY.

Witnesses WILLIAM STEWARDSON, A. RUNDBERG. 

